Fat, Queer & Trans Yoga
Hosted by Heart
Sunday, November 23rd
4-5PM
Daya Bushwick
donation-based (suggested $15-30)
A Fat, Queer & Trans Yoga class: open to all levels of practitioners, offered by Heart (@healingwitheart on IG) on Sunday, November 23rd at 4 pm at Daya Yoga in Bushwick, Brooklyn.
The yoga class will be gentle, beginner friendly, and center fat bodies, with plenty of modifications offered. This inclusive, welcoming space invites you to simply arrive as you are to explore embodiment with like-minded individuals.
We all need something to hold onto in these turbulent times. Come find community and space to explore entering your body [goodbye disassociation].
Your rage and despair are valid. AND holding these emotions in can hurt you. Come shake it out and move your body, so these deep emotions don't get stuck in your body.
So many of us are feeling burnt out. In these times of high demand for mutual aid and organizing, how have you been feeling in your body? Counter doom scrolling with intentionality. This is an invitation to practice presence, as opposed to numbing out. You deserve to feel able to be in your body and to feel safe in your body.
You deserve to come home to yourself. You deserve rest. You deserve slowness. You deserve softness.
It's too easy to be stuck in fear these days, but you can also resist this trap by reclaiming your peace and being present. Embrace balanced strength with softness. Show up for yourself, so you can keep showing up for your community.
Class is donation-based; suggested $15-30, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds.
Please wear comfortable clothes that you can move in.
Heart (he/ him) is a queer, trans yoga teacher, spaceholder and social worker. He studied yoga with Sri Dharma Mittra in the City and has modified the teachings for his community. Yoga gave him a window to his self when he was pre-transition, strength during the early days, and a sense of groundedness through the hard days. Teaching queer & trans yoga is a way of sharing a practice that held him down and continues to provide empowerment. It's a gift to be a bridge and connect others with ancient traditions.
Heart loves his quiet mornings at home with a cup of joe, journaling, drawing cards, and savoring the sun. He started teaching Queer, Trans, Non-Binary Yoga in his hometown, Washington, DC, in 2019, and it changed his life. In gathering people to move their bodies weekly, he gained so much community, which gave him so much strength as he began his medical transition that fall. The next year, he started teaching other teachers how to hold queer, trans affirming yoga spaces, and shortly began consulting with organizations on trans affirming practices in the workplace and beyond. While meaningful, this work led to burnout, and he went back to grad. school in 2023 for social work.
Heart continues navigating burnout and living with chronic pain, which makes this class even more important to him, as a time to show up, to offer space to come together, informed by the plagues [and joys] of living as a human, in a body, in 2025. Heart finds joy in ceramics classes, art in all its forms, and swimming at riis.